tert in seattle wrote:
> Doug Freyburger wrote:
>> notbob wrote:
>
>>> What I find particularly amazing is the abhorance to using the command
>>> line interface (CLI). You know ...like DOS. Yet, seems today's youth
>>> have no problem knocking out five or six dozen text msgs per day using
>>> only their thumbs, without looking! A new breed of touch typers who
>>> hate using text commands. How bizarre is that?
>
>> Using the CLI is a language so it requires skill in a language other
>> than English. Doing text messages is theoretically in English so it
>> only requires enough English to know how to reduce it to texting
>> abbreviations. Not bizzare once I thought of it in those terms.
>
> you're using a funny definition of language there ... using a CLI at
> the elementary level requires mostly vocabulary which isn't so hard
> to acquire, but the fact is when given the choice between menus or
> CLI (or its equivalent in batch files) even many advanced users will
> choose menus ... at least in my experience

It's an IT topic with only a poetic relation to cooking.

CLI has grammar. It's why CLI is used for scripting. Cooking has
grammar. It's why good chefs can come up with a receipt after glancing
at a basket of ingrients. It's the Chopped equivalent in the IT world.

Here's why it's not the advanced users who chose the menus -

One day I wanted to teach the team of SysAdmins why for us the CLI beat
the GUI. We had two printers to add on a network of about 60
engineering workstations. I took one and added it using the CLI. One
of the other guys took one and added it using the GUI. I was done in
about two minutes. One minute to figure it out on the workstation it
was attached to. One minute to type in and run the loop to add it to
the other 59 workstations. The other guy hadn't even walked over to the
second one yet by the time I was done. Oh no, the advanced folks are
the ones who type in a bunch oof stuff and then it's done. While the
intermediate folks are running GUI after GUI or menu after menu remotely
and the junior folks are walking arund workstation to workstation.

It's somewhat like a chef running a lot of items in parallel working
with one pan after another as each step of each recipe is ready to
happen.